HEH: Presidential biographer Edmund Morris to Bob Schieffer on “Face the Nation”: “That’s a fucked up question.” But it’s Edmund Morris who ran out of bullshit. I guess Schieffer’s stocks are limitless.

Plus, from the comments: “Love the way this guy seems to think he’s stumbled upon some novel insight when he calls Americans fat, stupid and insular. It’s not only bullshit, it’s boring, unoriginal bullshit that’s been sort of the European conventional wisdom on America since before the Civil War.” And that statement reminds me of this bit of history from Walt Whitman regarding Europe and America that you’d think a historian would consider. Or, in Morris’s case, I suppose, fictionalize. . . .